Art is a fast-growing and popular category in craft stores Award-winning author is internationally recognized as the leading authority in the decorative painting field This book breaks down a complicated process with encouraging and easy to understand text Deconstructs 19 decorative flower paintings step-by step Each featured flower features a full-sized ready-to-use pattern & color reference photos

Takes budding artists from the basics of materials, color theory, and design to the creativity of painting with step-by-step instruction in painting principles and techniques, accompanied by worksheets, shading patterns, and a host of color photographs and illustratons. Original.

Tole painting refers to decorative floral designs applied to tinware, traditionally on trays, coffeepots, teapots, cups, mugs, canisters, document boxes, and match safes. In this book, acclaimed painter Pat Oxenford provides guidance on the tools and materials needed to get started, tips on preparing tin for painting, and techniques for pulling the basic strokes that are the foundation for creating designs. Step-by-step photographs and detailed directions are included for using the strokes to create a variety of folk-art flowers and then several complete projects. A gallery of painted tinware offers inspiration.

Master the techniques and skills for painting life-like decorative flowers.

With comprehensive instruction, plenty of artist tips and tricks, and beautiful artwork to inspire, Oil & Acrylic: Flowers is the perfect resource for any aspiring painter. Award-winning artist Marcia Baldwin teaches aspiring artists how to paint stunning floral scenes in Oil & Acrylic: Flowers. Inside, find information about the painting tools and materials you need to get started, as well as painting techniques specific to creating beautiful flower portraits and arrangements that burst with vibrant color. Learn about color theory, working from photographs, beginning with sketches, applying an underpainting, taking artistic liberties, enhancing backgrounds, and creating texture. With each step-by-step project focusing on a specific technique, learn to paint six beautiful flowers. Throughout the book, artist Marcia Baldwin demonstrates how the principles and elements of art and design can be explored and experienced when painting flowers. She also shares her tips for creating an underpainting and arranging compelling compositions. With Oil & Acrylic: Flowers, you’re just steps away from becoming a master in painting beautiful flowers! Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. With comprehensive instruction, plenty of artist tips and tricks, and beautiful artwork to inspire, Oil & Acrylic: Flowers is the perfect resource for any aspiring painter.

With helpful artist tips and easy-to-follow lessons covering a variety of flowers, The Art of Painting Flowers in Oil & Acrylic will teach readers everything they need to know to create beautiful floral works of art in oil and acrylic.

(back cover) Want to create lively shadows, luminous brights, or subtle grays? This book shows you how. Acrylic artists at all levels of ability will discover how to make the best choices for their color palette and raise the quality of their art to an exciting new level. This easy-to-use book brings a welcome clarity to the myriad choices of acrylic color and paint varieties available today. You will find out how to choose a powerful and balanced palette of exceptional color that suits your working style and puts a stamp of individuality on your paintings. Discover how to use organic and inorganic pigments, semi-transparent and opaque paint colors, and iridescent, interference, and duochrome acrylics, along with gels, mediums, and other products you can add to modify color. Explore ways to bring out extraordinary color in specific genres, such as landscapes, animals, florals, still lifes, portraits, and more. All genres are illustrated with paintings that demonstrate the author's instructive points. See for yourself how to choose and apply a wide variety of creative color schemes, as author Lexi Sundell explains each color's qualities, tells you how to mix colors, and presents step-by-step demonstrations for each color scheme. Lexi Sundell is an internationally known acrylic artist and teacher who lives and works in Montana. Her award-winning works appear in collections around the world--many of them exhibited in museums and at major art shows. Her paintings, which are known especially for the luminosity of their colors, often feature flowers from her extensive gardens.

A comprehensive guide to decorative painting with tips on choosing supplies, preparing paint surfaces, mastering brush strokes and control, and developing individual style.

Beautiful brushstrokes step by step! This is the one! The Brushstroke Handbook is your complete reference for mastering more than 50 fabulous strokes. Inside you'll find visual, step-by-step instruction divided into two sections that detail techniques for working with both round and flat brushes in acrylics. Flip through and find the stroke you want, featuring a range of comma strokes, pressure strokes, fan strokes, teardrop strokes, scroll strokes and much more. From the very basics of supplies and techniques to more in-depth guidance for creating unique compositions, this guide offers everything you need to build confidence, have fun and paint successfully--whether you're a beginner or a more experienced decorative painter. This comprehensive guide includes: • Quick-reference photos for finding the right stroke, fast. • Step-by-step stroke instructions that actually build a little painting with every lesson. • Easy-to-follow worksheets for combining strokes to make complete flowers, birds, butterflies, lace, ribbons and more. • 20 fresh and pretty borders painted with round and flat brushes. • Two sections highlighting common mistakes and how to fix them. Plus, this guide offers a bonus section that shows you how to create six gorgeous compositions that feature today's most popular colors and stroke styles. It's all here! The Brushstroke Handbook gives you everything you need to master every stroke and explore a range of decorative painting possibilities. It's the one reference you'll want to have handy for virtually every project.